Professor Brian Slocum Among Top 10 Most Cited Legislation Law Faculty in Country

 

FSU Law Stearns Weaver Miller Professor Brian G. Slocum is among the ten most-cited law faculty in the United States writing on legislation (including statutory interpretation and legislative process) based on the latest Sisk data. This ranking is for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) and is based upon the data collected in late May/early June of 2024. Other institutions represented on this list and for this category include Yale, Harvard, Georgetown, William & Mary, Northwestern and Stanford law schools.

Among those citing Professor Slocum's work is retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Slocum's paper, Ordinary Meaning and Ordinary People (with Kevin Tobia & Victoria Nourse), 171 U. Penn. L. Rev. 365 (2023) was discussed by Justice Stephen Breyer on page 14 of his 2023 book, 'Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism'.

Professor Slocum's research and teaching focus on legislation/statutory interpretation, language and law, administrative law, and contracts. He came to FSU Law in 2023 from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he held the titles of distinguished professor of law and associate dean for scholarship. Professor Slocum received his JD from Harvard and has a Ph.D and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of California, Davis.